DUNN - Mrs. Helen Clarke Dunn, widow of the late Rev. E. M. Dunn, died in Milton, Wis., Aug 1, 1907, in the 76th year of her age.
Mrs. Dunn was born in West Edmeston, N. Y., and was the oldest in a family of seven children living to an adult age, born to Ephraim Clarke and Angeline Crumb Clarke. Three of this family are still living, Mrs. Wellington Clarke of Milton, Mrs. Edward L. Hyde of Boston, Mass., and Frank B. Clarke of St. Paul, Minn. Three children, two daughters and one son also survive her; two of these, the eldest daughter and the son are spending the summer in Europe, the younger daughter being with the mother, tenderly caring for her. Mrs. Dunn has been in rather feeble health for a number of years, and spent last winter in Hammond, La., in the hope that the milder climate would prove a benefit to her. For a time it seemed as though this hope would be realized, but new complications in her physical condition appeared, which made the issue, for a time, seem doubtful. Her son brought her north to the home of the eldest daughter, at Whitewater, Wis., where, with the best of medical care and nursing, it was thought she was sufficiently improved to justify the son and older daughter in carrying out their long made plans to spend the summer in foreign travel. She came to her own home in Milton, where she was joined by the younger daughter. It soon became evident that hopes for even a partial recovery were not well founded, and she quietly and peacefully sank to rest. Mrs. Dunn was a woman or rare native grace and Christian culture. She was a student at Alfred in its academy days under Professor W. C. Kenyon, where she studied music under Miss Susan E. Crandall, afterwards wife of Prof. E. P. Larkin. In 1855, she came with her father's family to Walworth, Wis., when she was called to the charge of the department of Music in Albion Academy. Two years later she was married to Elston. M. Dunn, of Plainfield, N. J., and lived in that city about twenty years. Another twenty years were passed in Milton, as the wife of the much loved and revered pastor of the Seventh-day Baptist church. For the last eleven years, and until her death, she kept her home in Milton, spending much time at the homes of her children. Her peaceful passing was a fitting end to such a life as she had lived, 'For so he giveth his beloved sleep.' L.A.P.
